Pocket neighborhoods were introduced in 1996 with the «Third Street Cottages in Langley, Wash. «I was working with our little town on an innovative housing code,» explains Ross Chapin, AIA, principal at RossChapinArchitects in Langley, Wash. «The key element was that it would
allow for twice the housing density on residential lots if the houses were less than 1,000
square feet, oriented around a shared
garden, and parking was screened from the street.